Hooking Up Happier: Design Insight from Grindr Saturday, March 9 | 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Austin Convention Center Room 10AB Hooking up and gaming technology: do these subjects have any immediate relation to you? I’ll take a wild guess and say probably not. Jaime Woo aims to solidify that connection at this year’s SXSW Interactive […]
SXSW Gaming Expo Friday, March 8 – Sunday, March 10 Palmer Events Center Calling all gamers! This is your chance to revel in the many, wonderful free activities that will be offered at this year’s SXSW Gaming Expo. Year after year, the Expo has gotten bigger and better. And this year is no different. Gaming […]
Citizen journalism is nothing new; it has But it was during the Arab Spring in early 2011 that this phenomenon became an undeniable force in our media landscape. Jim Frederick, editor of Time International, says he had been aware of citizen journalism for many years, but the Arab Spring really made him sit up and […]
Disaster: The Future of Crisis Communications Friday, March 8 3:30PM – 4:30PM Austin Convention Center Room 9ABC Lieutenant Ana Visneski has dealt with many of the major water related disasters Mother Nature has thrown our way in recent years. She has served as Public Information Officer for numerous Hurricane disasters and has designed and provided crisis […]
I had the opportunity to discuss the ins and outs of the upcoming SXSW Interactive panel, Get Ready to Rumble! How WWE is Crushing Social TV, with panel strategist Jason Hoch. Hoch is the senior vice president of Customer Strategy & Product Marketing at social marketing development company Echo, which has a hand in facilitating the WWE’s dominance […]
Composer Cheryl B. Engelhardt will explore how original music can enhance and strengthen quality and branding in Web videos in her panel “Fresh Prince + Downton Abbey: A Perfect Engagement.” Engelhardt said she came up with the idea for the panel after working on a parody video for CollegeHumor.com that combined the theme music from […]
If you want something done right, do it yourself. John Keefe will discuss how data journalists can use new mobile technology to gather their own data and better cover issues that affect their communities on a panel at SXSW Interactive. As senior editor for data news and journalism at WNYC-New York, Keefe works the station’s data […]